Why Tracee Ellis Ross Stopped Waiting to Be Chosen

Okay, do it.

Now, it's so funny because you kind of created your own name.

I mean, your dad is Ellis-

Oh

...

Silverstein.

Okay.

Obviously, your mom is Ross.

Do you wanna know the story?

Please give me the story.

'Cause it's so, it, it, when I explain it, you're like, "Oh, I see."

[laughs]

So I was born Tracee Joy Silverstein.

My middle name is Joy.

Oh.

That's what's on my birth certificate.

And then, um, Tracee Joy Ross Silverstein became the name that I had all through grade school.

So I was TJRS.

Okay.

And I don't know where, what, why.

I don't know what that was.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I don't know.

And then we lost Silverstein because my dad...

Okay, do it.

Now, it's so funny because you kind of created your own name.

I mean, your dad is Ellis-

Oh

...

Silverstein.

Okay.

Obviously, your mom is Ross.

Do you wanna know the story?

Please give me the story.

'Cause it's so, it, it, when I explain it, you're like, "Oh, I see."

[laughs]

So I was born Tracee Joy Silverstein.

My middle name is Joy.

Oh.

That's what's on my birth certificate.

And then, um, Tracee Joy Ross Silverstein became the name that I had all through grade school.

So I was TJRS.

Okay.

And I don't know where, what, why.

I don't know what that was.

I don't know.

Yeah.

I don't know.

And then we lost Silverstein because my dad...